When locals think of famed Pemaquid Oyster Company co-founder and head of operations Jeff “Smokey” McKeen they might focus on the aquaculture industry he’s helped foster on the Damariscotta River. While the business is a big part of McKeen’s day-to-day, the South Bristol resident is also a carpenter who built his own home, a folklorist, and a world-traveling musician.
Skidompha Skoop
A quick check in to see how you are all doing. We’re deep into winter – although the sun is pushing back – we all have our normal day-to-day stresses and anxieties. Following the news seems to come with a gut punch each day. It is easy to get into a rhythm of necessity, a myopic view of “what do we need to get done today.” Play and frivolity are so important, but they easily become second, third, or even fourth thoughts, or not considered at all.
Past and Present The First Medals of Honor
It happened during the American Revolution. Independence had been declared, but far from achieved with no end in sight. At 12:20 a.m. on July 16, 1779, a small but important battle occurred on the Hudson River.
Round Pond
Work is progressing on the dock at the Round Pond landing that was destroyed in the storm back on Jan. 10. Round Pond Marine is setting new pilings that have been capped in readiness for running the stringers and getting the decking laid.
Characters of the County: Finding Magic with Melissa Glendinning
The process of making art is almost as important as the product. For local artist, pumpkin decorator, and puppet-maker Melissa Glendenning, of South Bristol, the art of storytelling and creating is a way to connect children and adults with the magic that lives all around us.
Tails & Tales
“Mrs. Dunn! We need more red paper and paint!” said Pickles.
In Nature Who’s Afraid Of The Big, Bad Carbon Cycle?
Think about just one little piece of the carbon cycle. Carbon is in dry leaves, branches, old dead garden stuff, and paper. When those things burn, the carbon flies away into the sky.
Characters of the County: Jarrod and Cheryl Pinkham’s Decades of Laughter
In romance movies, love can look like running through an airport, kissing in the rain, or candlelit dinners in a quiet restaurant. While those events can still happen in real life, love’s maintenance and kindling happens in smaller moments: affirming texts, holding hands in the kitchen, or remembering the little things.
Westport Island
It’s funny. The looking-forward-to-it part. Much more than the after-it’s-all-over part. Like Thanksgiving and Christmas. Two months filling our lives with the looking forward and getting ready part. Then, like flipping a switch, it’s over. And now looking forward to the Oscars, Super Bowl, March Madness, Valentine’s Day, Fourth of July. The Grammys. Duet by Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs. Joni Mitchell.
Bringing Food Home Pumpkin Vine Family Farm
There are some places on this planet that truly make you stop in your tracks. Pumpkin Vine Family Farm in Somerville is one of those special places.
Newcastle History Weeks-Waltz Motors
In 1932 two young men borrowed $1000 each to establish a car repair and dealership in Damariscotta, on Church Street, next to the Chapman-Hall House where Bath Savings Bank is now and where Woody Dodge’s blacksmith shop used to be. The men were Walstein Weeks and Clifford Waltz. They called their new business Weeks-Waltz Motors.
Round Pond
An iconic part of Round Pond was lost during the recent storm. There are not many of us, as kids and perhaps also as adults, that did not jump, leap, and flip off that dock, including a friend of mine that did the exact same thing in the early ’40s. It was difficult to be at the landing during the very high tide along with the hurricane like winds and seeing it being lifted up twice by the storm.
Characters of the County: Through the Lens with Dr. Rifat Zaidi
Life presents itself in a series of challenges, and how individuals rise and respond to these trials reveals who they are. For Rifat Zaidi, of Newcastle, a well-known orthopedic surgeon at LincolnHealth’s Miles Campus in Damariscotta, award-winning photographer, cook, and director of a girl’s school in Pakistan, the way he’s met those challenges has revealed his determination and his imagination.
Bringing Food Home Farm & Sea to School Network Institute
It was still dark out when I entered the door to the Whitefield Elementary School cafeteria kitchen at 6:30 a.m. Inside, Mike Flynn, nutrition coordinator/executive chef for RSU 12, and Vicki Dill, head of the Whitefield Elementary School kitchen, were preparing 400 pounds of haddock received through Fishermen Feeding Mainers, a program run by the Maine Coast Fishermen’s Association.
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